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Atlas and Cedar
Examples include the Barbary Macaque, the Atlas Bear ( Africa's only species of bear ; now extinct ), the Barbary Leopard, the Barbary stag, Barbary Sheep, the Barbary Lion ( extinct in the wild ), the Atlas Mountain Badger, the North African Elephant ( extinct ), the African Aurochs ( extinct ), Cuvier's Gazelle, the Northern Bald Ibis, Dippers, the Atlas mountain viper, the Atlas Cedar, the European Black Pine, and the Algerian Oak.
Foliage of Atlas Cedar
* Atlas Cedar C. atlantica ( syn.
One of the plant associations in which Holm Oak is found is the Holm Oak / Atlas Cedar forests of the Atlas Mountains.
Some botanists also classify the Cyprus Cedar ( Cedrus brevifolia ) and Atlas Cedar ( Cedrus atlantica ) as subspecies of C. libani.
Among the more unusual imported trees are two examples of the Blue Atlas Cedar, a native of North Africa.
** Atlas Cedar, Cedrus atlantica, a cedar native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria ( Tell Atlas ) and Morocco
The Kubota Gardens contain many varieties of trees and plants including Kuretake ( Phyllostachys nigra or Black Bamboo ), Japanese Maple ( Acer palmatum ), Blue Atlas Cedar ( Cedrus atlanticus Glauca ), and Norway Spruce ( Picea abies ).
The western and central portions are more rainy and are covered in forests of Atlas Cedar, Cork Oak and Holm Oak, as well as the only remaining forests of Moroccan Fir, a subspecies of the Spanish Fir.
* A massive Cedar tree near the town of Ifrane in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco was named for the General ; the Gouraud Cedar is considered to be over 800 years old, and was " discovered " by Gouraud's troops during the French campaign against anti-colonial resistance on the Timahdite Plateau in the years 1917-19.
Cedrus atlantica, the Atlas Cedar, is a cedar native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria ( Tell Atlas, Saharan Atlas ) and Morocco ( in the Rif and Middle Atlas, and locally in the High Atlas ).

Atlas and cedar
It grew around the Atlas lumber mill which harvested the massive fir and cedar trees which dominated the landscape and was incorporated as a town in 1910.
In North Africa it prefers oak forests as well as stands of Atlas cedar and even palm groves.
It contains one of two known fallen Sequoia sempervirens in the UK, Wellingtonia, dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostroboides ), Atlas cedar ( Cedrus atlantica ), western hemlock ( Tsuga heterophylla ), Chinese swamp cypress and yew.
* Gymnosperm Database-Cedrus atlantica ( Atlas cedar ) description

Atlas and tree
In the constellation Cerberus introduced by Johannes Hevelius in 1687, Cerberus is sometimes substituted for the " branch from the tree of the golden apples " fetched by Atlas from the garden of the Hesperides.
Additionally, the tree shaded four mountain ranges, the Caucasus, the Taurus, the Atlas and the Balkan ranges.
In his youth, he played baseball with his brother Peter a. k. a Sonny and David Rooslet ( a neighborhood friend of Marciano's ), worked out on homemade weightlifting equipment ( later in his life, Marciano was also a client of Charles Atlas ) and used a stuffed mail bag that hung from a tree in his back yard as a heavy bag.
* Atlas language tree
Apparently, the " golden bough " the " branch from the tree of the golden apples " fetched by Atlas from the garden of the Hesperides was considered to have been generated by alchemical means.
Cupressus atlantica, the Moroccan Cypress, is a rare coniferous tree endemic to the valley of the Oued n ' Fiss river in the High Atlas Mountains south of Marrakech in western Morocco.
The tree is native to the northwest of Africa with a notable presence in the Southern Morocco part of the Atlas mountains.
The Garden of the Hesperides, Atlas ' daughters, was Hera's orchard in the far western corner of the world, where either a single tree or a grove of trees bearing immortality-giving golden apples grew.

Atlas and sometimes
* Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ), a songbird species sometimes included in the Eurasian Pied Flycatcher
Oeagrus is given as the father of Orpheus with mother Calliope ( sometimes Apollo is given as the father ), and he is described as " a Thracian wine-god, who was himself descended from Atlas.
She is sometimes called the wife of Atlas and mother of the Pleiades and the Hyades ( more usually the offspring of Pleione ).
The variety depressus ( sometimes considered a separate species, Anacyclus depressus ), called mat daisy or Mount Atlas daisy, is grown as a spring-blooming, low-water ornamental.
The Atlas bear ( Ursus arctos crowtheri ) is an extinct subspecies of the brown bear, which is sometimes classified as a distinct species.
However, she sometimes sharply differed from Buckley, for example by disagreeing with the magazine's review of Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged.
The Rocketdyne-powered Atlas-Centaur was sometimes referred to as a 2 < sup > 1 </ sup >/< sub > 2 </ sub > stage launch vehicle because the Atlas 1st stage ( in most cases ) jettisoned the twin-thrust-chamber booster engine prior to the completion of the 1st stage burn.
The eastern portion of the H Street Corridor is sometimes referred to as the Atlas District, part of a neighborhood branding campaign centered around the revitalized Atlas Theater, now called the Atlas Performing Arts Center.
The ' Atlas do Visconde de Santarém ' known sometimes in English as the Viscount of Santarém's world atlas is an important compendium lithographic reproductions of medieval European maps and navigation charts.

Atlas and included
** Agents of Atlas, a Marvel Comics mini-series that included a foundation named Atlas
Atlas Autocode included a < code >< u > complex </ u ></ code > data type which would support complex numbers, partly because of pressure from the electrical engineering department, as complex numbers are used to represent the behavior of alternating current.
Other American dynamite makers of that time period included the Hercules Corporation, Atlas, Trojan-US Powder, Austin, and several other smaller firms.
Darlene Pekul's large 4-color 2-piece fold-out map of the Flanaess included in Gygax's setting was reduced to a small black & white map printed on the inside cover of the Atlas.
It was this Atlas to whom Gerardus Mercator was referring when he first used the name " atlas ", and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.
* Ayn Rand included in her book Atlas Shrugged a character who is a modern-day Scandinavian pirate, to whom she gave the first name " Ragnar ".
WordPerfect Family Pack 3 included Task Manager, WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, Corel Print House 5, Corel Photo House 5 Compton's Interactive World Atlas, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 11, McAfee VirusScan, and CYBERsitter 2000 Internet content filter.
These businesses included medical technology company Atlas Development Corporation and several computer-networking companies Xylan ( later Alcatel ), Netcom Systems ( later Spirent Communications ), Ixia Communications, j2 Global Communications, and Tekelec, as well as video-game publisher THQ, and software company Digital Insight.
PolyGram subsequently trimmed most of Polydor's staff and roster, and shifted it to operate under the umbrella of PolyGram Label Group ( PLG ), a newly constructed ' super label ' specifically designed to oversee the operations of PolyGram's lesser performing imprints ( which included Island Records, London Records, Atlas Records and Verve Records ) at the time.
It included a description of " most of the cities of the world " ( Townatlas ), of the waterworld ( Atlas Maritimus in 33 maps ), and of the Ancient World ( 60 maps ).
In 1990 the maps were again included in The Forgotten Realms Atlas.
Tie-in books included The Smith and Jones World Atlas ( a humorous gazetteer of the world's countries ), Janet Lives With Mel and Griff, and The Lavishly Tooled Smith and Jones Instant Coffee Table Book ( co-written with Clive Anderson ), which was designed to look as if it could be made into a coffee table.
Its various functions included running the Atlas computer's virtual memory ( Atlas Supervisor paper, section 3, Store Organisation ) and is ‘ considered by many to be the first recognisable modern operating system ’.
The peculiarity of this galaxy was first identified in 1847 by John Herschel, and the galaxy was included in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies ( published in 1966 ) as one of the best examples of a " disturbed " galaxy with dust absorption.
The " Atlas of Rüppell's Travels in Northern Africa " ( 1826 – 30 ) included an ornithological section by Cretzschmar describing around thirty new species, including Meyer's Parrot, Nubian Bustard, Goliath Heron, Streaked Scrub Warbler and Cretzschmar's Bunting.
In an edition of the BBC Two programme Map Man, first broadcast 17 October 2005, a spokesman for the Geographer's A – Z Street Atlas company claimed there are " about 100 " trap streets included in the London edition of the street atlas.
The impact of Polo's book on cartography was delayed: the first map in which some names mentioned by Polo appear was in the Catalan Atlas of Charles V ( 1375 ), which included thirty names in China and a number of other Asian toponyms.
The ACWLA was also reorganized, with Jowett as president, Coulter and Willoughby as vice presidents, and an advisory board that included Charles Atlas, Bernard, Calvert, Earle Leiderman, Charles MacMahon, Bernarr Macfadden and Henry Titus ( many of the major players in the Iron Game at that time ).
The US $ 2 billion commercial business, which included Litton's oilfield services, business and automated assembly line operations, was named Western Atlas, Inc.
Later columnists writing for the magazine included Michael Tomasky ( city politics ), John Simon ( replacing Clurman on theater ), David Denby ( film ), James Atlas, Marilyn Stasio, and John Leonard ( books ).
Communities where Jews spoke Judeo-Berber included Tinerhir, Ouijjane, Asaka, Imini, and Ait Bou Oulli ( in the Tamazight-speaking Middle Atlas ), and Oufrane and Illigh ( in the Tasheliyt-speaking Sous ).

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